IN RE: the Care and Treatment of Rodney WILLIAMS (2022)

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

IN RE: the Care and Treatment of Rodney WILLIAMS, a/k/a Rodney V. Williams, a/k/a Rodney Vashon Williams, Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

WD 84625

Decided: June 28, 2022

Before Division Two: Karen King Mitchell, Presiding Judge, and Edward R. Ardini, Jr., and Thomas N. Chapman, Judges

Amy Lowe, Assistant Public Defender, St. Louis, MO, Attorney for Appellant. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General, and George R. Lankford, Assistant Attorney General, St. Louis, MO, Attorneys for Respondent.

Order

Rodney Williams appeals, following a bench trial, his civil commitment as a sexually violent predator. Williams raises a single claim on appeal; he argues that trial counsel was ineffective for introducing evidence that Williams has a mild intellectual disability, which he claims actually benefited the State's case insofar as the presence of an intellectual disability increased Williams's estimated risk of reoffending. Finding no error, we affirm. Rule 84.16(b).

Per Curiam:

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